The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-07-06
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bankruptcy to start with.-Er
Prof. shaIer, of Harvard Univer-
sity, says: sThe shale beds of Ohio
contain about one-seyenth of their
bulk of substance that can be dis
titled into coal ell, which would
make lake of oil as large as Lake
Superior, forty-five feet deep. If
the vast lime stone foundations of
the State contain, as some claim, as
much more, Ohio certainly has
plenty of fuel in its rocks to last for
ages to come, provided the skill of
man can extract it.
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Ono night recently Edward Smith,
a Huntington coffee drummer, went
to bed ut the Dixon House after
eating a heavy supper A few
hours later he began to whoop
around in his room, and followed
up the whooping and groaning by
falling through front window
He had a night marc sixteen hands
high and about as heavy as and clc-
phant, When he knocked the win
dow out he was awakend by the
crash.-POmeroy Telegraph.
The New York Legislature has
passed law abolishing car stoves.
1t having been clearly demonstrate
that steam could be used for heating
purposes in railway cars, the Gov
ernor signed the bill, which goes in
to effect May lst, 1888; thus giving
plenty of time for the companies to
get ready. New York's example
should be followed all over the
country.
An Order was issued from the
War Department restoring to the
army Maj. B. ]. P. Runkle, who was
dropped upon the Judgment of the
Court of Claims. This Judgment
was reversed by the United States
Supreme Court May %, 1887. He
will be borne upon the rolls of never
having been legally separated from
the Army, and is awarded $4,000
back pay.
An Opera company of the United
States comes to the front with u
grievance. 1t has been imprisoned
in Mexico in Cuttings prison on
'flimsy" charges, and denied hear
ing or trial. AS matter of pre-
caution and that justice may be done
all parties Secretary Bayard had
better hear them play an opera or
so before deciding to lay waste
Mexico.
Bob Ingorsoll is very much in
favor of foreign immigration. He
believes the country capable of sup
porting finely 6OO,OOO,OO of people.
He thinks the pilgrims of 1887 have
as good a right to come here as did
the pilgrims of 1920, and says that
crowd are mostly better people
than that crowd that landed then.
Grin Bushong, Parkersburg
farmer, was driving his two horse
team home few days ago when he
met one of these rowing bands of
Turks with their bears, that they
were putting through a drill by tho
roadside. One of his horses was SO
frightened that it stood still quiver-
ing moment and then fell dead.
Dannie Sullivan of Boston jumped
on low shed to get ball the other
evening, and stumbled over two
electric light wires, thus compIet-
ing circuit, and sending tremen-
dous current of electricity through
his little body. When found he was
dead, his clothing was burning, and
the flesh in contact with the wires
was burned to a crisp.
AT Harrison, Wis, last week, an
old woman was arrested and fined
SO and costs for pasturing her COW
in the road, which she paid, and
then getting the man who informed
on her in corner, where he could
not escape, she plastered him from
head to foot with rotten eggs.
A Connecticut eagle grabbed up
small bull dog and went sailing off
with him, but as soon as the pup re-
covered from it's astonishment it
seized the eagle by the foot and
brought him back to the ground in
a hurry, and then it liked TO have
eaten the rapacious bird up.
Boxes of bottled beer is the larg-
est item in the freight list of the
steamers Valley Bell and olivette
on the up trip every Saturday. A
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